5 real use cases for useless memecoins

The billionaire subprime short-trader in the 2008 financial crash said that digital assets have a “limited supply of nothing.” 603 Total views 504 Total shares Speaking in a recent interview, subprime short investor and billionaire portfolio manager John Paulson criticized the volatile nature of digital assets, while advocating for investments in traditional safe-havens such as gold.The…

The major British bank is “rewiring the DNA in banking” with crypto. 200 Total views 1 Total shares Standard Chartered, one of the biggest banks in the United Kingdom, has officially announced plans to provide institutional custody for major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC).According to a Dec. 9 announcement, Standard Chartered’s innovation arm SC Ventures has…

A Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) spokesperson has called Bitmain’s alleged hesitation around a purported initial public offering (IPO) “rumors,” in an email to Cointelegraph Dec. 17. When asked for verification and details on the crypto mining firm’s IPO status, the spokesperson responded that “HKEX does not comment on rumors.”Blockchain and crypto media had previously…

Erik Voorhees is embarrassed by toxic Bitcoin maxis and told a podcast: “I don't know when they got into Bitcoin, but absolutely that is not the community that I come from in Bitcoin.” 595 Total views 149 Total shares Erik Voorhees, the founder and CEO of ShapeShift, has revealed in a podcast that he felt…

In this episode of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast, host Elisha Owusu Akyaw explores cross-chain protocols and multichain ecosystems with Keer Lau, ecosystem growth lead at Orbiter Finance.

As decentralized finance continues its victorious march — although the road is sometimes bumpy — some significant questions on its nature remain. How can DeFi applications be protected from becoming nonoperational under extreme stress? Is it really decentralized if some individuals have way more governance tokens than others? Does the anonymous culture compromise its transparency?A…

After Bybit's hack, the Lazarus Group deployed its notorious money-laundering tactics — leaving a complex trail in the aftermath of yet another high-profile crypto heist. In the post-mortem of the $1.5 billion Bybit hack, two blockchain research organizations — Nansen and Chainalysis — have revealed the Lazarus Group’s money laundering strategy, which includes swapping illiquid

The President of the Swiss Crypto Valley Association, or CVA, said that the Coronavirus pandemic had a major impact on the local crypto ecosystem.A recent report claims that the representatives of nearly 80% of crypto valley’s firms said they will most likely go bankrupt over the next six months. When Cointelegraph asked CVA’s Daniel Haudenschild…